Thomas Shey
Legend
Other make-a-wish wishes involved feeding the homeless (which had to get reduced to feeding the homeless in one city, one time), getting tons of get well cards (they ended up filling a big warehouse), and hunt a particular bear. (And after make-a-wish stopped ranting hunting related wishes, a new charity, Hunt of a Lifetime, was born to fill the void. Just how many gravely ill kids with hunting experience are there?)
In some rural parts of the U.S. at least, I'd imagine not uncommon. Keep in mind supplementing your diet during the hunting parts of the year is not uncommon, so often kids learn to hunt fairly young and accompany parents doing so.